Theo Jansen is creating new lifeforms that live at the beach…. Can you ask for anything more?  These “animals” are amazing.

Outside the twbe office…..drink responsible…..Right!

2 Rooms on Ludlow is a crisply shot photo essay looking into a families close living quarters in the Lower East Side of New York.  NY Times

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1.…you are of legal drinking age in your area
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5.…this is all just a bit of fun and a laugh!

The Rules:

1.Go out and have a good time on St. Patrick’s Day or the day that you choose to practice St. Patrick’s Day. For the purpose of this site, we designate March 15 – 18th 2008 GMT as the official “Drunk” Dialing days.

2.You DO NOT have to be drunk, inebriated or in any way “under the influence” of alcohol to participate. No purchase is required, but long distance and other appropriate phone charges relevant to normal phone use for you will apply.

3.Phone the advertised number: +1 317 644-6963, follow the instructions and leave a message.

4.We will go through all the messages and pick a winner that we think is the best out of the lot.
That’s it.

For more info here you go.

Found image via flickr.

This chick has given me a case of the hornies.

more at the NY Post

Launched Yesterday on YouTube…..

“To expand the idea of the “Ghosts” project, we’re inviting anyone and everyone to create visuals to accompany the album’s music. In a few months, we’ll be gathering the entries we feel are particularly exceptional and highlighting them. There are no rules to this – be as creative as you like. Create a music video, or a short film, or something completely abstract. Use only one track from the album, or use multiple tracks. Only one caveat: Incorporating copyrighted materials (clips from movies, music by other artists, etc) into your video might limit our ability to feature it in the future. ”

Nine Inch Nails YouTube page

Instead of killing yourself at the Paul Smith sample sale check out Oak… They will give you 20 gift card for every 100.00 you spend.

Today’s search, ‘retard’.

FMR, Defined by Federico Fellini “the black pearl of publishing”.   NY Sun article

via, Art Observed

It seems that every time I am in Europe, there is some kind of amazing Video installation going on. The last time I was in Italy, Bill Viola was at the Duomo. Anyway, here is a a pretty amazing one by Pleix, click here to see the video .

One of my favorite shoe lines that you can afford. Bronx Shoes, available in Williamsburg at the mini mall’s shoe store around the corner…. I can not remember the name. I am not sure if they have this style but they carry the bronx!

You need an opinion, deep down it sounds like a good idea, maybe a little late, and can we reprise Kierfer?

We all love whores.

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Partners Greg Sandor and Paul Wegimont named their seven-year-old Cutchogue winery Bridge Vineyards, and this week, that name becomes particularly apt. “We want to bridge the distance between city and winery,” says Sandor, who collaborates with Long Island legend Eric Fry on Bridge’s estate-grown Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, and Riesling. Those varietals, along with a line of table wines called Brooklyn Red, White, and Rosé, will be available to taste and to purchase this weekend, when Sandor and Wegimont open a satellite tasting room in the Brooklyn shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge. Their farm-winery license allows them to sell and pour only New York State wines, including, besides their own, a Hudson Valley Pinot Noir and a Finger Lakes Riesling. Later this month, the partners will start pairing finger foods like stromboli and panini with $5 tastes of wine, and selling locally produced groceries like Long Island goat cheese and Sang Lee Farms salads. By next fall, just in time for the 2008 harvest, the space will function as a bona fide “urban winery,” with clients doing their own barrel sampling and small-batch blending.

Bridge Vineyards Tasting Room
20 Broadway, at Kent Ave., Williamsburg; 718-384-2800

Lucky for San Francisco, Mike Davis has a solo show opening up at White Walls this Saturday.  I have always enjoyed Davis’ paintings, which seem to channel the times of Hieronymous Bosch. Well done.

Dutch Designer Ted Noten, “Lady K Bag nr4″. Ted Noten, on his way of becoming the world’s best ever jewelry artist, was a psychiatric nurse for 4 years, so you can see where he might get some of his influences. The Lady K Bag contains an engraved and heavily gold-plated gun, with one gold bullet included. Lets see if you can seek this through Laguardia Security.

Check out his site to see some more of his diverse work.

Designgive is a web site for designers, by designers. They give artists the opportunities to create, to promote themselves and to better society by contributing designs for apparel that can be purchased on their site. A portion of the proceeds from each item sold will go to a charity of the buyer’s choosing. A cause for design, plain and simple. “As artists we were given a talent to create, it’s up to you to use those talents to try and make a difference in the world.”

I hate Duke and all things related. When I saw this pair of Nikes, I got angry.  This isn’t a jealous angry, just an angry that grows from the years of listening to the now old and voiceless Dicky V. sweat every move the Dukies made.  That and every person I have ever met from Duke is, in the words of Nacho Libre “a reeeeal Douche.”  Luckily the shoes will never make it to the Mass Market.

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And now for a great video by Peter Rosenberg